I listened, but my radio reception is not that great...and I've gotten spoiled by the simulcasts...I want to "see" it...I was not wildly impressed by any of them but I was delighted to learn that the first Carmen I ever saw on stage, Rise Stevens, is going strong as she nears 100 in June...

I was in college when I saw her perform Carmen in New Orleans with some clod of a tenor...in the final scene, she walked upstage and turned her back on him and before she could turn around he had planted his foot in the middle of the train of her dress...he didn't budge. She just stood there and outsang him until he stabbed her. But her "Laisse-moi" seemed to have a little added pizzazz.